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Defying conventional political labels and capitalizing on widespread distrust, a range of new movements share the conviction that all power is conspiracy.
Democracies rely on the free exchange of ideas and information, but that freedom can also be weaponized to erode democratic debate. How can democratic societies protect—and protect themselves from—the free flow of digital information?
Traditional worker organizing has failed on every level. But new approaches are finding success, pointing the way to a more just future.
Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.
The resurgence of anti-Semitism today is not a quirk of Donald Trump. As a new book shows, it has deep roots in powerful institutions.
Taking a stand against Trump has material consequences for government workers. Here's how we can help.
Stop-and-frisk and broken-windows policing have ravaged black communities, treating everyone as criminals, while failing to make cities any safer. Now Trump wants to revive them.
Throughout the twentieth century, bipartisan consensus was that black youth were latent criminals in need of abundant policing.
A Massachusetts high court ruling acknowledges that black men aren’t wrong for wanting to run from police.
Many see gayness as inseparable from city life. But many LGBT Americans—particularly queer black folks—live in rural places. Their invisibility to the gay rights movement is a problem.
